Synchronized Machine Vision Editing Environment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Machine vision inspection systems face challenges in editing part programs due to complex user interfaces, making it difficult for users to recognize cause-and-effect relationships between instructions and results, leading to inefficient navigation and editing processes.
Innovation Solution
A machine vision inspection system with an editing environment that provides synchronized selection and identification of related features across multiple user interface windows, allowing users to select data in one window and automatically highlight associated part program instructions in another, enabling intuitive editing and navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple user interface windows are used to display part program instructions and results, then information completeness is improved, but user interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple user interface windows (program instructions window, results window, graphic display window) into a synchronized system where selecting an element in one window automatically highlights corresponding elements in other windows. This merging of navigation contexts across windows reduces the perceived complexity while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements immediate visual feedback through synchronized highlighting across windows. When a user selects a part program instruction, the corresponding results and graphic elements are automatically highlighted in other windows, and vice versa. This feedback mechanism helps users understand the cause-and-effect relationships without needing to mentally track multiple separate interfaces.
2Ease of operation
If traditional separate window navigation is used, then interface simplicity is maintained, but editing accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The synchronized highlighting system provides immediate visual feedback that confirms the relationship between selected instructions and their results. This feedback ensures editing accuracy by allowing users to verify which instruction corresponds to which result before making modifications, eliminating ambiguity in the editing process.
Solution Approach 2:
The highlighting mechanism acts as an intermediary that visually connects instructions across different windows. Instead of requiring users to remember or infer relationships, the system mediates the connection through synchronized visual indicators, making the complex relationships between distributed interface elements transparent and error-proof.
3Device complexity
If manual inspection of cause-and-effect relationships is required, then system complexity is reduced, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically establishing and displaying the cause-and-effect relationships between instructions and results through synchronized highlighting. Instead of requiring users to manually trace relationships through multiple windows, the system autonomously identifies and visualizes these connections, significantly improving editing efficiency without adding complex manual procedures.
Data Source
AI summary
A machine vision system program editing environment including synchronized selection and/or identification of related features in a plurality of different user interface windows is provided. In particular, one of the windows is an editing window where a part program representation is displayed for editing by a user. In one embodiment, a user may select data or another feature of interest in a window that is not the editing window (e.g., a results window, or graphical workpiece inspection feature display window) and the associated part program instruction representation is automatically highlighted and/or selected in the editing window. Conversely, a part program instruction representation may be selected by a user in the editing window and the associated results or feature in another window is automatically highlighted and/or selected. User interface navigation, rapid program quality assessment, and overall part program creation and editing efficiency are significantly enhanced in such an editing environment.